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...essential Von Hoffman. Irreverent, breezy, arrogant, selfconscious, Nicholas von Hoffman has deliberately established himself as a completely subjective reporter. The Post has given him carte blanche to go anywhere and write anything, and three times a week the results go off resoundingly. For Von Hoffman has style; his literate wit and uncompromising outlook make him a sort of William F. Buckley of the New Left...
...will be up to the historians to decide whether German-born Henry Kissinger is advising the President wisely on national security. His reputation as the President's resident wit, however, should already be assured. Samples...
Noel Coward pours the froth of inflection as if it were the champagne of wit. He is a connoisseur of surfaces, a sealer of the comic Everests of trivia. His plays are echo chambers of his own voice. His cool, clipped speech serves as an ironically British parody of the stiff upper...
Died. Vicki Cummings, 50, stage and television comedienne, noted for her sardonic wit; of cancer; in Manhattan. On and off the stage, she had a voice as brassy as Ethel Merman's and a tongue as agile as Dorothy Parker's; she made her Broadway debut in 1931's Here Goes the Bride, scored hits in 1943's Voice of the Turtle, 1953's Mid Summer and 1966's The Butter and Egg Man revival, and appeared in more than 200 TV shows, most notably The Man Who Came to Dinner and Burlesque...
Intimates relish his flashes of dinner-table wit, which are nearly always aimed at one of the establishments he is bucking. "The people at regulatory agencies are utterly confounded when we come to investigate them," he says. "They have forgotten what citizens look like." On rare evenings out at a party, he usually leaves early to get in a couple more hours of reading, writing or phoning at his office. Though Bachelor Nader has no antipathy to girls, he rarely has the time or inclination for dates. Says his father: "We're very proud of Ralph. But we wish...